Republicans are highlighting the anti-President Trump Twitter history of the top lawyer for the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, who questioned witnesses for 45 minutes at a public impeachment hearing.
“Norm Eisen, the lawyer hired by Jerry Nadler and the House Judiciary Committee Democrats to question today’s impeachment ‘witnesses,’ should have scrubbed some of his tweets,” a Trump campaign spokesman said Wednesday. “Don’t expect any objective fact-finding today. He’s just another anti-Trump resistance fanatic who’s obsessed about impeachment since before President Trump even took office.”
Eisen, a founder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and a former Obama administration lawyer and ambassador to the Czech Republic, started attacking the president before he took office.
Eisen, 59, tweeted “Vive le resistance!” after Trump was elected in 2016 and a month later said he was helping “coordinate massive pushback on Trump corruption,” unless Trump divested from his business interests.
The graduate of Brown University and Harvard Law School, where he was a classmate of Barack Obama, helped CREW file a complaint against Trump the day he was sworn in as president.
“Congrats Pres. Trump — now let the battle begin!” Eisen tweeted, posting a link to a Politico article about CREW’s Jan. 20, 2017, complaint about Trump’s ownership of his Washington hotel.
Judiciary Democrats hired Eisen in February as a “special oversight counsel,” as the panel ramped up a broad inquiry into Trump, his family, and his finances.
Eisen’s questions aimed to establish evidence Trump committed bribery, abuse of power, and obstruction when he sought help from Ukraine investigating Joe Biden and then blocked Democrats from obtaining witnesses and documents.
Four constitutional scholars appeared as witnesses and three of them are noted Trump critics.
